Apple announces new MacBook Pro 13 Retina Display

Apple has launched a new Macbook Pro 13 Retina Display, amongst the many things the company is going to reveal. The new Macbook Pro 13 inch with retina is just .75-inches thick.” That’s 20% thinner than before”. Its also only 3.5 pounds, about a full pound lighter than before, and the lightest MacBook ever. The Macbook Pro Retina 3 inch has a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution, That’s a 4x boost from the original Macbook Pro 13 incher.

The new resolution is 2x the resolution of a 1080p display, and the display has a 29% higher contrast ratio over the previous Pro and 75% reduced glare. The usual Facetime HD camera with 720p recording, stereo mics and speakers, backlit keyboard are also found in the device.

Designed in the same way as the 15 inch with retina display, the new 13 incher has side ventilation and a dual fan system, configurable upto 768GB of flash storage, 8GB of RAM, Core i5 or i7 Ivy Bridge chips, 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4. HD 4000 graphics. The Macbook Pro 13 Retina also offers upto 7 hours of battery life.

Pricing of the Retina version of the 13 inch is kept safley in the middle of them all at a $1,699 for the base model, with a 2.5GHz i5, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of flash storage. The new Macbook Pro 13 is shipping starting today from all countries with online Apple Stores.